Firefall || Fairy Tail

37 : t h e . u n d e r w o r l d . k i n g

As annoyed as she was for being struck, Kyoka couldn't help but be slightly amused. "I didn't expect any of you to be able to move."

Verani's Lightning Body continued to crackle around her. She clenched her fists, she didn't have a whole lot of time before she got too low on magic power to keep this up. Minerva didn't look like she could move and Mirajane would be out cold for at least a little while longer. The blonde knew that only left her to stand against Kyoka now that Erza had been robbed of her senses.

The Etherious was smirking at the blonde. As much as she enjoyed focusing all of her energy on the redhead, seeing the defiant look in those hazel eyes made her want to snuff it out. Verani was having a similar thought as she wished to knock that damn smirk off Kyoka's face.

"Do you think you will fare better than Erza?" Kyoka quickly shot her elongated fingers toward V.

Still cloaked in her Lightning Body, Verani easily zipped around the attack. Pooling her magic in her fist, she aimed for the Etherious' face again. Her only hope was knocking Kyoka out. And from how quickly her opponent was recovering from her punches, she needed to step her game up.

Verani extended both palms forward, a large golden magic circle crackled to life before the stream of black clouds and wild lightning barreled out of it, "Storm Torrent!"

Upon hitting its target, the angry storm spiraled upward into the clouds. Kyoka's muffled growls of pain and frustration reached the others, their eyes widening at the sight of the blonde making the Etherious cry out. But said blonde was panting harder than before, her Lightning Body fading down into the faintest ripples of electricity that moved along her skin. The sensitivity to pain that Kyoka's curse had caused throughout her body was becoming more apparent again. The small waves of static that she had been pumping through her nerves were growing too weak to continue to confuse the signals of agony from reaching her brain.

"That is enough!" Kyoka yelled, her body glowing as she dispersed the last of the electrical storm aiming the curse at the girl who had quickly run through her nerves.

Verani's back arched as the force of the blow lifted her a few inches off the ground. Even at full strength she didn't think she would have had the power to override the signals that Kyoka was driving through her body. Her hazel eyes were open as far as they would go as her mouth hung open, silent screams aimed for the sky. Her thoughts were jumbled and nothing made sense anymore. Was she even looking up at the sky? Was that up or was that down?

And then it all stopped.

Her ears were still ringing as she landed on her knees before slumping forward to faceplant the dirt. Waves of pain rippled through her body at the impacts, but she didn't have the energy to make a sound. But she had seen the flash of red that had streamed past her as she fell.

"Sight. Sound. These are luxuries, both. All that's needed is the light within. You would understand that if you had one." Erza stood tall as her sightless eyes still seemed to be staring into Kyoka's soul. "It would've led you to protect your comrades! You were created to live in darkness!"

Without a moment of hesitation, Titania nailed the Etherious in the chin with an uppercut. Her still agitated nerves screamed but she ignored them. "With pain your only guide, it's you who must be frightened!" She drove her foot into Kyoka's stomach, "And what a tragic creature you are. For you've never known the light you lack."

Through the growing numbness, Verani couldn't help the smile that faintly crossed her lips as she let her eyes sink closed, relying on only her ears to hear what was happening around her.